After Dan Dickinson was diagnosed with liver cancer and told he needed a transplant, he was called to the hospital four times for surgeries that didn’t happen. Each time, either he was a backup ...

The 2024 Behavioral Decision Research in Management (BDRM) conference was hosted by the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and the Roman Family Center for Decision Research.

Evening, Weekend, and Sokolov Executive MBA Programs, Asness and Liew Master in Finance Program, and Master in Management Program Ceremony starts at 4:30 p.m. The 2026 Chicago Booth Graduation ...

The recent bank failures in the United States seem to have an obvious cause. Over 90 percent of the deposits of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank were uninsured. Uninsured deposits are ...

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The annual Quantitative Marketing and Economics Conference co-sponsored by Chicago Booth Kilts Center for Marketing invites faculty and PhD students, as well as other marketing experts from across the ...

Walk down the aisles of any US convenience store and you could easily feel assailed by rows of similar—yet different—products competing for attention. Bags of Tostitos Scoops! tortilla chips share ...

In the early days of the coronavirus pandemic, Hollywood mogul David Geffen enraged many social media users when he posted a photo of his yacht, Rising Sun, on calm waters. “Isolated in the Grenadines ...

Within months of COVID-19’s first emergence in China, the World Health Organization admitted it was battling, alongside the pandemic, something nearly as dangerous and certainly as complicated: a ...

The introduction of the price tag was a big step forward for American retailing, and you can thank John Wanamaker. In the 1870s, Wanamaker purchased a former Philadelphia railroad depot and expanded ...

Since the Great Recession, America’s wealthiest 1 percent have been demonized as fat cats who have grown ever richer while the middle class has stagnated. While protesters have called for the 1 ...

A conceptual artwork titled “Comedian” sold at auction last November for just over $6 million. The piece consisted of a banana duct-taped to the wall, along with installation instructions and a ...